By "Basic User", we mean a user account with up to 10 timelines and 200 stored images. A Basic User also has the ability to create and manage up to 30 sub-users (student users).

student users

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30

Student users (also called "sub-users") are limited to 3 timelines, 20 images and have limited features. When managed by a Basic account, these users can be edited & tracked by their "parent", and do not require an email address (using a screenname to log in).

timelines

3

10 (+ 90 for sub-users)

Timelines can be published and shared with a public url, or kept private and visible only to logged in users. Each basic user in an account can create up to 10 timelines; Sub-user accounts can create 3.

There is no limit to the number of events you can place in a timeline — except the limits of the user interface and browser performance.

Each Basic user can manage up to 200 images hosted on Timeglider. When an image is uploaded, it's reduced down to no wider/higher than 400 pixels. A Basic user's sub-users each can manage up to 20 of their own images. FYI, You don't need to rely on Timeglider for image hosting: You may use URLs from apps like Flickr and 500px; a timeline can have as many images as you would like.

ach Basic user can manage up to 200 Timeglider hosted images (20 for student users). When an image is uploaded, … … source from image apps like Flickr and 500px. We recommend using medium sized images (<=400 pixels). The timeline itself is not limited on the number of images that can be used.

page views/month

200

5000

Visits refer to web visits to either the Timeglider freestanding timeline pages (at timeglider.com/t/timeline_code) or to embedded timelines. If you are a publisher needing higher limits, you can contact us so we can set up a plan for extra bandwidth.

embedding

If you publish a timeline in Timeglider, you can either send people directly to a freestanding web page with that timeline (which takes up the entire browser), or you can embed it in a web page (blog or news story). We recommend allowing as much horizontal space as possible.

You can add other users to a timeline as owners, editors (who can add and edit events), or just viewers. These collaborators can either be one's sub-users (like students) or they can be other people. If they're not an existing Timeglider user, they'll get an invitation to sign up.

legend

A legend allows you to categorize events in a timeline according to icons you've selected. Clicking on an icon in the legend filters the timeline to show only that category.

presentations

Presentations are arrangements of 2 or more timelines that can be published or simply kept in the application. Timelines in a presentation can be independently dragged, inverted, and collapsed to create the best visual arrangements.

tagging

Tagging events (with comma-delimited lists of keywords) allows for a complex cross-referencing of data in a timeline, creating the possibility of millions of views of the same data by combining various tags. This comes in handy for team-oriented timelines (such that team members can easily see things that pertain to them) as well as historical timelines that have many aspects (economic, cultural, or political).

batch editing

Sometimes, a job requires a wheelbarrow rather than a shovel. By shift-clicking events (or event command-a to select all), you can create a group of events that can be edited in one fell swoop — even for adding tags, which can be merged with existing tags, or replace the old ones.

super-user

The "super-user" is an administrative user who can create, edit, and delete other users. She can also manage timelines (create, delete, etc) and assign them to these users, too. It's a handy role to have when you might have up to 300 student users under one umbrella.

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* The free version of Timeglider is now for (undergraduate and younger) students only. Since 2008 we've provided a free product for anyone. But unlike Google, we cannot subsidize our product from revenue from other products (like advertising). To make Timeglider a sustainable operation for years to come, we need to charge appropriately. If you have a financial hardship, let us know, and we'll take it into consideration.